Bioenergy Insight
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An English creamery is now using its by-products to create biogas in a new sustainable energy project. Yorkshire cheese producer Wensleydale Creamery will supply whey – which was previously discarded - to a local biogas plant to generate 10,000 MWh of thermal power, enough to heat 800 homes per year.
Wensleydale Creamery produces around 4,000 tonnes of cheese annually and will use its valuable by-products to support the Leeming Biogas plant in North Yorkshire, run by Iona Capital. Here, the plant will process the leftover whey permeate and turn it into nearly one million cubic metres of green gas.
Mike Dunn, co-founder of Iona Capital, said: “This partnership with Wensleydale not only shows how we are turning waste food products into useful energy for homes and business, but also our commitment to Yorkshire.
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